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Yahoo
26-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
The Google store at The Domain is opening this week
Google is opening its newest retail store in Austin this week, bringing its lineup of tech products and services closer to local shoppers. Located at the Domain, the store opens Friday, May 30, marking Google's first retail location in Texas and its seventh worldwide. Similar to an Apple store, the storefront will feature Google products and tech for Austinites to try out such as Gemini Live, the company's AI assistant, on a Pixel phone or its Nest cameras and FitBit trackers. The store also will have pickups for online orders and have experts in person to help troubleshoot issues or provide repairs. Google has experts on hand to help visitors get the most out of their device, such as troubleshooting an issue, providing Pixel phone repairs and more. The Domain storefront will open at 10 a.m. Friday, May 30, and is at 11701 Domain Blvd, Suite #164, which is in the same building as the Shade Store, EVEREVE and Tecovas near Nordstrom. The store will be open from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Mondays through Saturdays and from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Sundays. This article originally appeared on Austin American-Statesman: Google's Domain storefront to open this week
Yahoo
19-05-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
Which fitness trackers are the best for tracking women's health?
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The best fitness trackers can be excellent accountability tools in your pursuit of a healthy lifestyle. Whether you've got an Apple Watch, a Garmin, or a FitBit, these small but powerful devices can measure everything from your step count and resting heart rate to your maximal oxygen consumption and sleep patterns. Women's Health Week This article is part of Tom's Guide's Women's Health Week — a series of content that explores how technology and the right workouts can support and empower women through every phase of life. According to a review in the Journal of Medical Internet Research, women make up one of the largest groups of fitness tracker users. Many of these devices measure women-centric statistics like menstrual cycle and pregnancy information, but do they really provide women with useful insights into their own health? Or do they just collect data without any real or helpful context? Fitness trackers are wearable items, like watches and rings, that record your personal health metrics using a combination of motion sensors, optical heart rate sensors, and user information like height, weight, and age. They can measure your heart rate at rest and during exercise, the total number of steps you've taken in a day, how many calories you burn, and how many hours of deep sleep you get each night, among other metrics. Many fitness trackers will go even further to provide a deeper look into your overall wellness. Popular trackers from brands like Apple, Garmin, and Woop take the information they record and make estimates on your overall cardiovascular fitness, how much rest and recovery you need, and blood oxygen levels. Fitness trackers are relatively accurate on stats like distances walked and heart rate trends. Your readings may be a bit off based on how you wear your tracker, but for the most part, these kinds of readings are pretty spot on. Other measurements, like calories burned, can be less precise. Fitness trackers make estimates based on the data they collect, like your heart rate and activity levels, combined with objective data like your height, weight, and gender. These estimates don't account for body type or muscle mass, which can have a profound impact on the amount of calories you burn. Cardiovascular fitness measurements can also be a little far from the truth. Accurate VO2 max readings (or the maximum amount of oxygen your body can consume during exercise) are usually recorded using lab equipment and specific tests, whereas fitness tracker VO2 max readings are estimates based on your heart rate levels during exercise and recovery. While most fitness trackers offer menstrual cycle tracking as a primary feature, that information alone doesn't necessarily provide a full picture of women's health. A few models go well beyond menstrual cycle tracking with options to report discharge characteristics, mood shifts, and pregnancy events like baby kick counts and hiccups. Garmin fitness trackers offer some of the most detailed women's health insights. Not only can they track cycle dates and phases, but users can continue to track symptoms if periods are irregular or absent due to polycystic ovarian syndrome, menopause, pregnancy and breastfeeding, or contraceptive use. Here's how to use the menstrual tracking feature on your Garmin Watch Garmin's pregnancy tracking options are also some of the most detailed available, offering gestational age and size estimates, recommendations on prenatal nutrition and exercise, and the ability to enter blood glucose levels for management of gestational diabetes. Here's more about the Garmin pregnancy tracking feature. The Apple Watch provides a comprehensive look into women's health data as well, featuring temperature-sensing capabilities that can help determine ovulation days and fertile windows. As is the case with other fitness tracker metrics, though, these readings are just estimates. The Apple Watch also ranked highest in a recent JMIR Formative Research study among women on fitness tracker comfort, features, and motivational qualities. Fitness trackers can maximize your training potential and help you achieve a variety of health goals. Until recently, many fitness trackers focused heavily on activity and exercise without much attention to other wellness aspects. However, thanks to advances and upgrades in wearable tracker technology, fitness tracker brands have begun putting women's health needs at the forefront of their features. How to set up menstrual tracking on your Apple Watch How to sync your exercises to your menstrual cycle for better workouts Samsung Galaxy Ring is changing the game for cycle tracking — here's how
North Wales Live
17-05-2025
- Health
- North Wales Live
Tech review: Homedics Glo Body Analyser Bathroom Scale offers a weighty data package
I am one of those people that stops and starts diets constantly. It's fair to say I need a pairt of scales as much as the next person, and that I should be paying more attention to what they are telling me. Bathroom scales are a fairly bland piece of household equipment, despite the odd attempt throughout history to make them more interesting. As a child of the 80s, I remember we had a set of scales that actually had a piece of carpet on the top of them to match the bath mat. At first I had to google this to make sure I hadn't dreamt it, but yes, this was a thing. Scales had carpet on for comfort, some had a cork topping. We've come a long way from those very strange days. Back in those days scales were just a platform and a magnified dial to see the bad news, these days they are a lot more sophisticated. So much so that I was genuinely quite shocked at the technology and information that is packed into these scales from Homedics. The glass topped design of these scales looks great and they are thin enough to fit under most cabinets or tucked neatly into a draw or cabinet. They also have a really nice backlight which operates via a motion sensor, very useful at night and it looks pretty funky. Metrics can be changed at the touch of a button depending on whether you prefer pounds or kilos. The readings are very quick and calibrated to give you a 100% accurate reading. These are more than just your standard stand on and read the measurement scales. Yes, you can do that, but these offer so much more in terms of the data. An accompanying app can be used in conjunction with the scales, and this is where the magic happens. On here you can set targets and goals, and learn a lot about your measurements. For example it takes the reading, combined with your data, and it gives you readings for things like your body mass, BMI, muscle mass and fat free body weight. With 13 essential body measurements included, it builds a picture of your body and over time the data allows the app to track your progress and help you with real sustainable development. You can also link the device up to things like Apple Health and FitBit, which is really useful if combining with your weight tracking with exercise. This is effectively the next generation of bathroom scales, I'm back on the first rung of my weight loss journey, but I am hopeful that these scales combined with the app, can help me make real progress. Glo Body Analyser Bathroom Scale is available now for £34.99 from the Homedics website, Argos and Amazon. Reviews Amazon user: Excellent scales, it gives you so much more information than you would have from just a regular scale. The only downside to this is that to access that information at your leisure, you do need a mobile device upon which you can download the Glo Homedics app. Amazon user: Without the app though you would be missing out on the features to provide and track other measurements. Luckily for the privacy conscious you can sign into the app as a guest without setting up an account. This is what I chose to do in order to test the unit properly. The scales are very accurate quick to take measurements and the device is attractive to look at. When using the app, it takes around 10 seconds for all the sensors to take a broader set of measurements. These are useful and in particular for goal setting you weight reduction experience. I'd thoroughly recommend this unit, it looks great, works well out of the box in simple modes and has a comprehensive set of other measurements and goal tracking freatures.
Wales Online
17-05-2025
- Health
- Wales Online
Tech review: Homedics Glo Body Analyser Bathroom Scale offers a weighty data package
I am one of those people that stops and starts diets constantly. It's fair to say I need a pairt of scales as much as the next person, and that I should be paying more attention to what they are telling me. Bathroom scales are a fairly bland piece of household equipment, despite the odd attempt throughout history to make them more interesting. As a child of the 80s, I remember we had a set of scales that actually had a piece of carpet on the top of them to match the bath mat. At first I had to google this to make sure I hadn't dreamt it, but yes, this was a thing. Scales had carpet on for comfort, some had a cork topping. We've come a long way from those very strange days. Back in those days scales were just a platform and a magnified dial to see the bad news, these days they are a lot more sophisticated. So much so that I was genuinely quite shocked at the technology and information that is packed into these scales from Homedics. The glass topped design of these scales looks great and they are thin enough to fit under most cabinets or tucked neatly into a draw or cabinet. They also have a really nice backlight which operates via a motion sensor, very useful at night and it looks pretty funky. Metrics can be changed at the touch of a button depending on whether you prefer pounds or kilos. The readings are very quick and calibrated to give you a 100% accurate reading. These are more than just your standard stand on and read the measurement scales. Yes, you can do that, but these offer so much more in terms of the data. An accompanying app can be used in conjunction with the scales, and this is where the magic happens. On here you can set targets and goals, and learn a lot about your measurements. For example it takes the reading, combined with your data, and it gives you readings for things like your body mass, BMI, muscle mass and fat free body weight. With 13 essential body measurements included, it builds a picture of your body and over time the data allows the app to track your progress and help you with real sustainable development. You can also link the device up to things like Apple Health and FitBit, which is really useful if combining with your weight tracking with exercise. This is effectively the next generation of bathroom scales, I'm back on the first rung of my weight loss journey, but I am hopeful that these scales combined with the app, can help me make real progress. Glo Body Analyser Bathroom Scale is available now for £34.99 from the Homedics website, Argos and Amazon. Reviews Amazon user: Excellent scales, it gives you so much more information than you would have from just a regular scale. The only downside to this is that to access that information at your leisure, you do need a mobile device upon which you can download the Glo Homedics app. Amazon user: Without the app though you would be missing out on the features to provide and track other measurements. Luckily for the privacy conscious you can sign into the app as a guest without setting up an account. This is what I chose to do in order to test the unit properly. The scales are very accurate quick to take measurements and the device is attractive to look at. When using the app, it takes around 10 seconds for all the sensors to take a broader set of measurements. These are useful and in particular for goal setting you weight reduction experience. I'd thoroughly recommend this unit, it looks great, works well out of the box in simple modes and has a comprehensive set of other measurements and goal tracking freatures. Alternatives arboleaf Bluetooth Smart Digital
Tom's Guide
14-05-2025
- Health
- Tom's Guide
Are fitness trackers really prioritizing women's health or just ticking a box?
The best fitness trackers can be excellent accountability tools in your pursuit of a healthy lifestyle. Whether you've got an Apple Watch, a Garmin, or a FitBit, these small but powerful devices can measure everything from your step count and resting heart rate to your maximal oxygen consumption and sleep patterns. According to a review in the Journal of Medical Internet Research, women make up one of the largest groups of fitness tracker users. Many of these devices measure women-centric statistics like menstrual cycle and pregnancy information, but do they really provide women with useful insights into their own health? Or do they just collect data without any real or helpful context? Fitness trackers are wearable items, like watches and rings, that record your personal health metrics using a combination of motion sensors, optical heart rate sensors, and user information like height, weight, and age. They can measure your heart rate at rest and during exercise, the total number of steps you've taken in a day, how many calories you burn, and how many hours of deep sleep you get each night, among other metrics. Many fitness trackers will go even further to provide a deeper look into your overall wellness. Popular trackers from brands like Apple, Garmin, and Woop take the information they record and make estimates on your overall cardiovascular fitness, how much rest and recovery you need, and blood oxygen levels. Fitness trackers are relatively accurate on stats like distances walked and heart rate trends. Your readings may be a bit off based on how you wear your tracker, but for the most part, these kinds of readings are pretty spot on. Other measurements, like calories burned, can be less precise. Fitness trackers make estimates based on the data they collect, like your heart rate and activity levels, combined with objective data like your height, weight, and gender. These estimates don't account for body type or muscle mass, which can have a profound impact on the amount of calories you burn. Cardiovascular fitness measurements can also be a little far from the truth. Accurate VO2 max readings (or the maximum amount of oxygen your body can consume during exercise) are usually recorded using lab equipment and specific tests, whereas fitness tracker VO2 max readings are estimates based on your heart rate levels during exercise and recovery. Get instant access to breaking news, the hottest reviews, great deals and helpful tips. While most fitness trackers offer menstrual cycle tracking as a primary feature, that information alone doesn't necessarily provide a full picture of women's health. A few models go well beyond menstrual cycle tracking with options to report discharge characteristics, mood shifts, and pregnancy events like baby kick counts and hiccups. Garmin fitness trackers offer some of the most detailed women's health insights. Not only can they track cycle dates and phases, but users can continue to track symptoms if periods are irregular or absent due to polycystic ovarian syndrome, menopause, pregnancy and breastfeeding, or contraceptive use. Here's how to use the menstrual tracking feature on your Garmin Watch Garmin's pregnancy tracking options are also some of the most detailed available, offering gestational age and size estimates, recommendations on prenatal nutrition and exercise, and the ability to enter blood glucose levels for management of gestational diabetes. Here's more about the Garmin pregnancy tracking feature. The Apple Watch provides a comprehensive look into women's health data as well, featuring temperature-sensing capabilities that can help determine ovulation days and fertile windows. As is the case with other fitness tracker metrics, though, these readings are just estimates. The Apple Watch also ranked highest in a recent JMIR Formative Research study among women on fitness tracker comfort, features, and motivational qualities. Fitness trackers can maximize your training potential and help you achieve a variety of health goals. Until recently, many fitness trackers focused heavily on activity and exercise without much attention to other wellness aspects. However, thanks to advances and upgrades in wearable tracker technology, fitness tracker brands have begun putting women's health needs at the forefront of their features.
